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From: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
To: "Lu, Brent" <brent.lu@intel.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: "alsa-devel@alsa-project.org" <alsa-devel@alsa-project.org>,
	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.com>,
	Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linaro.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Richard Fontana <rfontana@redhat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	paulhsia <paulhsia@chromium.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ALSA: pcm: fix incorrect hw_base increase
Date: Fri, 15 May 2020 11:30:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ce215f76-89c3-3543-c6ed-bc9b81af50a0@perex.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BN6PR1101MB21327687327440F1DB7CB75F97BD0@BN6PR1101MB2132.namprd11.prod.outlook.com>

Dne 15. 05. 20 v 11:04 Lu, Brent napsal(a):
>>
>> Is this a bugfix needed for older kernels as well?  When did this issue show
>> up?
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>> greg k-h
> 
> It happens when DMA stop moving data from host to DSP/DAI for a long time
> (> half of buffer time). I know host driver should do something about it. But if
> not, the HWSYNC will keep increasing the hw_base and hw_ptr and confuses
> user space program.

I'm afraid, but with this code, you turn off the hw_ptr jiffies code. It would 
be better to fix the driver in this case (return the updated / estimated DMA 
pointer, increase DMA buffer size etc.). This "lag" is unacceptable.

						Jaroslav

> 
> Regards,
> Brent
> 


-- 
Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
Linux Sound Maintainer; ALSA Project; Red Hat, Inc.

  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-15  9:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-15  4:09 [PATCH] ALSA: pcm: fix incorrect hw_base increase Brent Lu
2020-05-15  7:04 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-05-15  9:04   ` Lu, Brent
2020-05-15  9:30     ` Jaroslav Kysela [this message]
2020-05-15 10:39       ` Takashi Iwai
2020-05-15 12:01         ` Jaroslav Kysela
2020-05-18  4:38           ` Lu, Brent
2020-05-15  7:21 ` Takashi Iwai
2020-05-15  9:36   ` Lu, Brent
2020-05-15 10:40     ` Takashi Iwai

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